Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar Poems

Don’t say that one is black that one is though.
Don’t say that one is dwarf that one is though.
Say that one is fair or flair though one isn’t.
Averment of truth will not earn you friends.
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It is man who acts in bed;
Woman’s role is to respond.
She is the lever for his urge.
She must be his stimulant
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No event is worth without a witness.
No affair is mirth without a knower.
If no one knows she is in love with me
Where is the derivative of pleasure?
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Women are nervous so much for their looks
Rather than spending for their stomachs.
What does it indicate other than
That their hunger is for men’s attention?
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A perfectionist is a waste of time.
He will not commend unless he amends
What others did, to his satisfaction.
Applause and not purpose weigh his action
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My works must stay after my death.
My home must live after my death.
My frame must hang after my death.
As for my wife I have no such fancies
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The will to survive is stronger
Than the will to conquer.
The will to escape is stronger
Than the will to capture.
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No fertile woman has ever
Escaped visual prostitution.
No potent man has ever
Avoided visual raping either.
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The high caste beggar is proud of his caste.
The low caste doctor is conscious of his caste.
No amount of education and wealth
Could eradicate the caste consciousness.
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Growth and generation for twenty years.
Health and reproduction for twenty years.
Breath and degeneration for twenty years.
Since then live sans passion, the God’s design.
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